[Forgotten Amendments]

I’m kinda’ anonymous here. So I’ll say what I wouldn’t say aloud:

If you’re dealing with someone with “Lyme Disease”, you’re probably dealing with a hypochondriac.

There. I said it!

[acapesket]

Stay Anonymous.
Your ignorance is showing in klieg lights!
There, I said it!

[agrarianlady]

People I know have suddenly found they can’t breathe ... finally sourced it to red meat after a tick bite.

They wish to heaven it was all in their heads.

We used to have to label foods for nuts at the church buffet — now it’s for beef and pork. :-/

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324634304578537203916053308

[fini]

I was raised in the south and ticks were just a part of life and considered a minor nuisance. You just picked them off and went on with whatever you were doing. Every blue moon, someone got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, but it was very rare.

Somewhere along the line something changed. I was in the Marine Corps and we used to get covered with ticks, with no effect. Then in the early 1990s, Lymne's disease (and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Human granulocytic anaplasmosis) hit Camp Lejeune with a vengeance.

In 1992, I was the executive officer of Marine Combat Training Battalion. We usually had about 1000 new Marines in the woods every day. That summer we had about five percent of our Marines come down with some type of ticks disease. It got so common that we did tick disease checks on a daily basis. It got so common seeing the Lyme disease "bullseye" that they didn't even send them to sick call, the corpsman would give them the pills and move on. Like someone else said, if caught early, no problem. However, if wait about six months, then big problems. My brother-in-law is a farmer in VA, and he started having some perplexing symptoms. It was determined that he had Lymes disease and had had it for a while (some people do not develop the bulls eye). His health is sorely compromised and he will never be fully healthy again.

One of the biggest problems we had was that there was no effective test (a lot of false positives and negatives- even if the bulls eye was present). Luckily, the treatment was tetracycline (4 pills a day for 14 days- cost $14).

[panaxanax]

“If you’re dealing with someone with “Lyme Disease”, you’re probably dealing with a hypochondriac.”

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I’ve been fighting Lyme disease for 6 years and will say, without question, that you are....

....FULL OF CRAP!

[freeangel]

And as someone with chronic Lyme disease—You’re a jerk and I hope you get it too! There, I’ve said it!

[Nickname]

Why do you say that?